FALL 2001 HARDCOVERS
Introduction
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Biography & Memoirs
Business & Personal Finance
Childcare & Parenting
Contemporary Affairs
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War & Military
Women's Studies

ALGONQUIN BOOKS
This Rock (Sept., $24.95) by Robert Morgan. Two brothers struggle against each other and 1920s Appalachia in the latest from the author of Gap Creek. 50,000 printing. Advertising.
Creatures of Habit (Oct., $22.95) by Jill McCorkle. Twelve stories narrated by women focus on the basic animal behavior of humans. Advertising. 15-city author tour.

ALYSON
Sticky Kisses
(Oct., $23.95) by Greg Johnson. An estranged brother and sister reunite during the holidays.

AMISTAD PRESS
Blowback
(Oct., $24) by Eric James Fullilove. The black National Security Officer to the president is framed for his girlfriend's murder. Ad/promo. Author publicity.

ARCADE
Riot: A Love Story
(Sept., $24.95) by Shashi Tharoor. Love, hate and cultures clash in a 1989 riot in India.
Mercy Among the Children (Oct., $24.95) by David Adams Richards. This Canadian bestseller concerns a man's pact with God and its calamitous consequences on his family.

ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS
Peace Like a River (Sept., $24) by Leif Enger. An 11-year-old asthmatic relates the story of a father raising three children in 1960s Minnesota. 100,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo. BOMC and Reader's Digest selections.
The Bulgari Connection (Nov., $23) by Fay Weldon is a quirky novel about the adventures a diamond necklace brings to a group of clever women.

BALLANTINE
The Hole (Oct., $19) by Guy Burt. Five teens enter a windowless cellar after a friend promises to release them in three days, but he never returns. Advertising.
Alma Mater (Nov., $24) by Rita Mae Brown turns the heat up on a sexual awakening at a small Virginia college. Advertising. 8-city author tour.
The Lake of Dead Languages (Jan., $23.95) by Carol Goodman. A prep school Latin teacher is haunted by a 20-year-old tragedy.
No Place Like Home (Feb., $23.95) by Barbara Samuel. After 20 years, a woman returns home to rediscover her roots and find true love.

BALLANTINE/ONE WORLD
Satisfy My Soul (Feb., $19.95) by Colin Channer. Jamaica and South Carolina provide settings for a tale examining the nature of love and the healing power of myth. Advertising. 6-city author tour.

BANTAM
Lost Soldiers (Sept., $25) by James Webb. A former combat Marine returns to present-day Vietnam, seeking the remains of an American, a deserter who may not be dead after all. 60,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
One Door Away from Heaven Dec., $TBA) by Dean Koontz. A troubled woman attempts to avert tragedy when a neighboring girl's father believes that aliens will cure his daughter's deformity. 525,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
Thursday's Child (Jan., $TBA) by Sandra Brown. At her sister's request, a twin takes her place just days before her sibling's wedding, and then falls for another man. 275,000 first printing.
Safe Harbor (Feb., $TBA) by Luanne Rice. Two loving sisters grow up on the New England coast, and when a mysterious accident takes Lily, Dana becomes mother to her suspicious children. 100,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author tour.

BERKLEY
Fault Lines (Sept., $21.95), edited by Caitlin Shetterly, anthologizes stories about love and marriage by Lorrie Moore, Russell Banks and others.
Narcissus in Chains (Oct., $22.95) by Laurell K. Hamilton is the latest starring Anita Blake, vampire hunter.

BLOOMSBURY
All Families Are Psychotic (Sept., $24.95) by Douglas Coupland turns the author's unerring cultural eye to the family.

BLUEHEN BOOKS
The Deadwood Beetle (Sept., $23.95) by Mylène Dressler. Flashbacks to Nazi-occupied Holland complicate an old man's search for redemption and love in contemporary New York City. Advertising.
The Webster Chronicle (Oct., $24.95) by Daniel Akst. A rural New York town is inflamed by accusations of child abuse.
BROADMAN & HOLMAN
Sea of Glory: A Novel Based on the True WWII Story of the Four Chaplains and the U.S.A.T. Dorchester (Sept., $24.99) by Ken Wales and David Poling recalls the four clergy who gave up their lives to save others.

CARROLL & GRAF
Beasts (Nov., $14) by Joyce Carol Oates. A young woman stumbles into a nightmare of deadly desire in this novella. 65,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.

CATBIRD PRESS
Lovers & Murderers (Feb., $27) by Vladimír Páral, trans. by Craig Cravens, takes a darkly humorous look at what people will do to get and keep what they want.

COUNCIL OAK BOOKS
The Woodcutter's Christmas (Oct., $14.95) by Brad Kessler tells of a woodcutter, a New York family and learning to treasure what's been cast aside. Advertising.

COUNTERPOINT PRESS
Why Did I Ever (Nov., $24) by Mary Robison is the first work in 10 years by the author of An Amateur's Guide to the Night.

CRANE HILL

Wings of Morning (Oct., $26.95) by William Cobb. This return to 1965 includes freedom marches, magic and voodoo.

CROWN
Swift As Desire (Sept., $22) by Laura Esquivel. What tragic event has come between the dying Don Júbilo and his once beloved, now estranged, wife? Also published in a Spanish-language edition from Anchor, Tan Veloz como el Deseo. Ad/promo. 5-city author tour.

CUMBERLAND HOUSE
Roseflower Creek (Sept., $20.95) by J.L. Miles concerns the loss of innocence and child abuse.

DAFINA
Some Sunday (Sept., $24) by Margaret Johnson-Hodge. In this sequel to Butterscotch Blues, her husband's death has left Sandy in a deep depression, trying to find her way to peace. Ad/promo. 15-city author tour.
The Upper Room (Oct., $24) by Mary Monroe. In a migrant labor camp in the Florida Everglades, Mama Ruby rules with a switchblade and a crucifix. Ad/promo. Author publicity.

DELL/DELACORTE
The Smoke Jumper (Sept., $26.95) by Nicholas Evans. The author of The Horse Whisperer offers a new plot with a scorching brew of wilderness fire fighting and frontline photojournalism. 500,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author publicity. BOMC, LG and DBC selections.
Total Recall (Sept., $25.95) by Sara Paretsky. In the 10th V.I. Warshawski novel, V.I. comes to the aid of a friend threatened by a mysterious man. 125,000 first printing. Ad/promo. LG, MG and DBC selections. Author tour.
The Fiery Cross (Oct., $27.95) by Diana Gabaldon. It is 1771, and a 20th-century wife, Claire Randall, tells her 18th-century husband, Jamie Fraser, that the American war of independence is coming. 300,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author tour.
The Kiss (Dec., $26.95) by Danielle Steel. Married to other spouses, a man and woman share their first kiss in a London limousine that is just then crushed under a double-decker bus. 1 million first printing. Ad/promo. Author publicity. LG and DBC selections.
The Ice Curtain (Feb., $24.95) by Robin White. A vast diamond mine in Siberia, murder and a beautiful woman lead Gregori Nowek into peril. 30,000 first printing. Advertising. Author publicity.

DORCHESTER/LEISURE BOOKS
The Infinite (Sept., $20) by Douglas Clegg. Harrow House, a place of nightmares and tragedy, is alive once more, ready to wreak havoc on a new group of victims. Advertising.
The Museum of Horrors (Oct., $24), edited by Dennis Etchison, gathers 18 original tales of terror from Peter Straub, Joyce Carol Oates, Charles L. Grant and more. Advertising.

DOUBLEDAY
The Vine of Desire (Jan., $23.95) by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is a sequel to Sister of My Heart.

DOUBLEDAY/NAN A. TALESE
Look at Me (Sept., $24.95) by Jennifer Egan. After surviving a terrible car accident, a jaded fashion model undergoes reconstructive surgery that leaves her unrecognizable. Ad/promo. Author tour.
Claire Marvel (Feb., $25) by John Burnham Schwartz. Two people dare not trust themselves in love.

DUTTON
Billy Strobe (Sept., $25.95) by John Martel. In this suspense novel, a lawyer and ex-con always seem to be on the wrong side of the law. Advertising. Author publicity.
Falling Angels (Oct., $23.95) by Tracy Chevalier. The latest novel by the author of Girl with a Pearl Earring joins two London families of different social classes at the turn of the last century. Ad/promo.
Jackdaws (Dec., $26.95) by Ken Follett builds suspense as WW II's D-Day approaches. Ad/promo.
This Bitter Earth (Feb., $23.95) by Bernice McFadden. The sequel to Sugar picks up in 1965 as Sugar Lacey returns to Bigelow, Ark., with the granddaughter of her friend Mary. Ad/promo.

ECCO
Middle Age: A Romance (Sept., $28) by Joyce Carol Oates portrays affluent middle-agers reinventing themselves for love after youthful energies fade. 60,000 first printing. Ad/promo.
The Stories of Paul Bowles (Oct., $39.95) by Paul Bowles is a definitive collection. 30,000 first printing. Ad/promo.

FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX
The Corrections (Sept., $25) by Jonathan Franzen. A family crumbles in the face of disease and a fragmenting modern society.
The Pickup (Sept., $23) by Nadine Gordimer. The casual encounter between a rich South African and an illegal alien evolves into a love affair.
The Devil's Larder (Oct., $20) by Jim Crace. The National Book Critics Circle winner for Being Dead offers 60 short fictions about appetite, food and desire.

FORGE
No Other Option (Sept., $24.95) by Marcus Wynne. An operative in America's most covert intelligence organization goes bad and must be found. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
September Song (Sept., $24.95) by Andrew M. Greeley is the fourth installment chronicling the O'Malleys. 100,000 first printing. Ad/promo.
Never Enough (Oct., $25.95) by Harold Robbins. The past catches up with a powerful Wall Street investment banker. 100,000 first printing. Ad/promo.
Man and Wife (Nov., $24.95) by Andrew Klavan. A psychiatrist finds his life linked to a patient when he discovers his own wife's hidden past. Ad/promo.

FULCRUM
The June Rise: The Apocryphal Letters of Joseph Antoine Janis (Sept., $22.95) by William Tremblay. A Missouri farm boy grows into an adviser to Lakota Chief Red Cloud.

GLOBE PEQUOT/LYONS PRESS
Hemingway on Hunting (Nov., $29.95), edited by Sean Hemingway, collects excerpts from Green Hills of Africa and major short stories.

GRAYWOLF PRESS
The Ghost of Bridgetown (Sept., $24.95) by Debra Spark. A young American woman negotiates racial tensions on Barbados to return a valuable menorah to its rightful owner. Advertising.

HANNACROIX CREEK BOOKS
Rex (Oct.; $25.95, paper $16.95) by Fred Yager. A boy whose paleontologist parents are missing finds something long thought to be extinct.

HARPERCOLLINS
The Associate (Sept., $26) by Phillip Margolin. A young associate at an Oregon law firm is made a scapegoat for a case gone wrong. 150,000 first printing. Ad/promo. 12-city author tour.
Long Time No See (Sept., $26) by Susan Isaacs brings back Judith Singer, the heroine of Compromising Positions. 200,000 first printing. Ad/promo. 10-city author tour.
Coldheart Canyon: A Hollywood Ghost Story (Oct., $27.95) by Clive Barker. Tinseltown, it seems, is not far from a passage into hell. 100,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
Portrait in Sepia (Nov., $26) by Isabel Allende completes the trilogy that includes The House of Spirits and Daughter of Fortune. 300,000 first printing. Ad/promo. 7-city author tour.

HARPER/RAYO
Thirteen Senses (Sept., $26) by Victor Villaseñor. The author of Rain of Gold retells more epiphanic family stories in a folksy tone. Also published in a Spanish-language edition, Trece Sentidos.

HERODIAS
Carmen's Rust (Oct., $20) by Ana María del Río looks at the social and political realities of the Pinochet regime in Chile.

HENRY HOLT
Eva Moves the Furniture (Sept., $23) by Margot Livesey. A motherless young woman is torn between reality and companions invisible to everyone else. Advertising. Author tour.
The Good German (Oct., $26) by Joseph Kanon is a thriller set in 1945 Berlin. $150,000 ad/promo. BOMC selection. 12-city author tour.

HOLT/METROPOLITAN
Dugan Under Ground (Oct., $25) by Tom De Haven explores the explosive underground-comics scene of the 1960s.

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
The Marble Quilt (Sept., $24) by David Leavitt is a new collection of nine short stories. 25,000 first printing. Advertising. Author tour.
Coming Soon!!!: A Narrative (Nov., $26) by John Barth. His first novel in 10 years deconstructs postmodernism with humorous results. 35,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author tour.
KENSINGTON
Tell Me Why (Sept., $24) by Stella Cameron. With her personal life a shambles, a celebrated jazz pianist drops out of sight until a man persuades her to let love back into her world. Ad/promo. Author tour.
Kentucky Rich (Oct., $24) by Fern Michaels brings back the Colemans and the Thorntons from Michaels's Texas and Vegas series in a new setting: the world of Kentucky horse racing. Ad/promo. Author publicity.

ALLEN A. KNOLL

All Lost Time: A Novel of Baby Fever (Jan., $25) by Theodore Roosevelt Gardner II. A single woman nearing 40, who wants to have a baby, suddenly has two men in her life.

KNOPF
Blood and Gold: The Vampire Chronicles (Oct., $26.95) by Anne Rice. Once mentor to the Vampire Lestat, Marius is ready to reveal the secrets of his 2000-year-long existence. 750,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
The World Below (Oct., $25) by Sue Miller. A divorced woman discovers the truth of her grandmother's great love. 200,000 first printing. Ad/promo. 20-city author tour.
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (Nov., $24) by Alice Munro is a new collection of nine stories. 75,000 first printing. Advertising.
Basket Case (Jan., $25.95) by Carl Hiaasen. Once an investigative journalist, an obit writer in Florida homes in on the late Jimmy Stoma, star of Jimmy and the Slut Puppies. 250,000 first printing.
A Multitude of Sins (Feb., $25) by Richard Ford contains a novella and 10 stories about love and intimacy. 75,000 first printing.

LIBRARY OF AMERICA
Dawn Powell: Novels 1930-1942 and ...Novels 1944-1962 (Sept., $35 each), edited by Tim Page. These nine novels are set in small-town Ohio and in Manhattan. $50,000 ad/promo.

LITTLE, BROWN
The Evidence Against Her (Sept., $24.95) by Robb Forman Dew traces a family from the 1900s to the present in a small Ohio town. 50,000 first printing. Ad/promo.
The Stone Flower Garden (Feb., $23.95) by Deborah Smith. Residents of a small North Carolina town are troubled by a 25-year-old unsolved murder. 75,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author tour.

LONGSTREET
Will's War (Oct., $25) by Janice Woods Windle. A German descendant is tried for treason amid fierce anti-German sentiment at the start of WW I. 50,000 first printing. Advertising. Author tour.

MACADAM/CAGE
Pretty Is As Pretty Does (Sept., $25) by Alison Clement. A former beauty queen meets her true love two weeks after her wedding.
Ella Minnow Pea (Oct., $22) by Mark Dunn is set on the fictional island of Nollop, home to the man who coined the phrase, "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog."

MCCLELLAND & STEWART
The Grim Pig (Sept., $24.95) by Charles Gordon satirizes the modern newspaper world. Advertising.

MIRA
Buffalo Valley (Oct., $14.95) by Debbie Macomber. Will a large retail conglomerate destroy the small businesses of Buffalo Valley, N.D.?
The Dream Factory (Feb., $19.95) by Janet Leigh. The actress spills the beans on the heyday of Hollywood studios.

MODERN LIBRARY
The Mysterious Island (Jan., $23.95) by Jules Verne, trans. by Jordan Stump, is a first new, unabridged translation of the classic adventure tale.

MORROW
Paradise Lost (Sept., $25) by J.A. Jance is the ninth Joanna Brady mystery. 125,000 first printing. Ad/promo. 12-city author tour.
Rebecca's Tale (Oct., $25) by Sally Beauman is the authorized continuation of Daphne du Maurier's still-popular Rebecca. 125,000 first printing. Ad/promo.
A Woman Betrayed (Nov., $18) by Barbara Delinsky is the first hardcover publication of what was a 1991 mass market original. 125,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
The Promise in a Kiss: A Cynster Christmas Novel (Dec., $18) by Stephanie Laurens. The seventh Cynster novel marks Laurens's hardcover debut. 150,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
Tishomingo Blues (Feb., $26) by Elmore Leonard. A carnival high-diver becomes a witness to murder in Mississippi. 200,000 first printing.

MOUNTAIN PRESS
Cowboy in the Making (Nov., $15) by Will James. Young Billy, his pet wolves and an old trapper explore the Rockies. Advertising.

NBM PUBLISHING
The Birthday Riots (Jan., $14.95) by Nabiel Kanan. A politician's manager is caught between his radical roots and his present-day conservative image.

NEW DIRECTIONS
The Tortoises (Sept., $24.95) by Veza Canetti, trans. by Ian Mitchell. This narrative of the destruction of Austrian Jews appears in English for the first time.
Summer in Baden-Baden (Nov., $23.95) by Leonid Tsypkin is a fictional portrait of Dostoyevsky.

W.W. NORTON
A Murder, a Mystery and a Marriage (Sept., $16.95) by Mark Twain. An unpublished story surfaces 125 years after it was written.
Servants of the Map (Jan., $24.95) by Andrea Barrett. Stories and novellas range across two centuries and a broad swath of the globe. Advertising. Author tour.
Deep in the Shade of Paradise (Feb., $26.95) by John Dufresne concerns mismatched love in a precinct famous for healing waters in a distant Louisiana swamp. Ad/promo. 8-city author tour.

OHIO UNIV. PRESS
The Man Who Created Paradise: A Fable (Oct., $20) by Gene Logsdon tells how one man's dedication restored sustainable life to strip-mined Appalachia.

OVERLOOK PRESS
The Yellow Sailor (Sept., $26.95) by Steve Weiner charts the trajectories of four sailors and the owner of a German merchant ship setting sail from Bremen in 1914. Advertising.
The Reconstructionist (Nov., $26.95) by Josephine Hart. A psychiatrist can't come to grips with his own problems. Advertising.

PANTHEON
Flights of Love (Oct., $23) by Bernhard Schlink weaves together stories about love as desire, guilt and self-betrayal. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
Flinch (Oct., $24) by Robert Ferrigno. A magazine columnist is contacted by a man claiming to be a serial murderer. Ad/promo. 10-city author tour.

PEACHTREE
Oh My Goodness! (More Surprises from FairAcres) (Oct., $14.95) by Effie Leland Wilder revisits Hattie McNair and her lovable cohorts in the retirement home.

PERMANENT PRESS
A Selfish Woman (Oct., $24) by Christopher Brookhouse. An older college professor recovering from breast cancer and her graduate student assistant begin an affair.

PICADOR USA
The Altar of the Body (Sept., $24) by Duff Brenna. The lives of four people collide in Minnesota when George's bodybuilder cousin returns with his sexy girlfriend. Author tour.

PINEAPPLE PRESS
Sandspun: Florida Tales by Florida Tellers (Sept.; $16.95, paper $9.95), edited by Annette J. Bruce and J. Stephen Brooks, includes humorous stories, tall tales and adventure yarns.

PLEXUS PUBLISHING
Kate Aylesford, or, The Heiress of Sweetwater (Oct., $22.95) by Charles J. Peterson reissues a historical romance first published in 1855.

POCKET BOOKS
The Medici Dagger (Sept., $25) by Cameron West. A Hollywood stuntman seeks a dagger linked to his parents' death. Ad/promo. 7-city author tour.
Mercy (Sept., $25) by Julie Garwood. An attorney's life is saved by a beautiful stranger in New Orleans. Ad/promo. DBC and Rhapsody Book Club selections. 13-city author tour.
Grand Avenue (Oct., $25) by Joy Fielding. Friendship sustains four women through 20 years of marriage, motherhood and murder. Ad/promo. 11-city author tour.
To Trust a Stranger (Jan., $25) by Karen Robards. Suspecting her wealthy husband of infidelity, a woman is thrust into danger. Publicity. 6-city author tour.

PUTNAM
What You Owe Me (Sept., $25.95) by Bebe Moore Campbell is a tale of betrayal, love and reconciliation spanning 50 years of African-American history. Ad/promo. Black Expressions, LG and DBC selections. Author tour.
Midnight Bayou (Oct., $25.95) by Nora Roberts. The only witness to a long-ago tragedy is a formerly grand mansion in a Louisiana bayou. Ad/promo. LG and DBC selections. Author publicity.
Isle of Dogs (Nov., $26.95) by Patricia Cornwell takes a darkly comic look at politically driven law enforcement at work. Ad/promo. BOMC, LG, MG and DBC selections. Author publicity.
Smoke in Mirrors (Jan., $23.95) by Jayne Ann Krentz. Investigating her friend's death, Leonora becomes the next murder target. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
Under Fire (Jan., $26.95) by W.E.B. Griffin. The latest in the Corps series takes the marine heroes to Korea. Ad/promo.

PUTNAM/MARIAN WOOD
Time and Chance (Feb., $27.99) by Sharon Kay Penman is book two in the trilogy following the stormy marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II.

RANDOM HOUSE
Black House (Sept., $28.95) by Stephen King and Peter Straub. Are a series of gruesome murders the work of a disturbed madman or a malignant force set loose in western Wisconsin? Ad/promo. BOMC, LG, DBC and MG selections.
Fury (Sept., $24.95) by Salman Rushdie. A former philosophy professor and self-made millionaire makes his way through the perils of New York City in the summer of 2000. Ad/promo. 8-city author tour.
October Suite (Oct., $23.95) by Maxine Clair. It's 1950 Kansas and a woman's affair with a married handyman leaves her pregnant. Ad/promo. 12-city author tour.
Ordinary Life (Feb., $24.95) by Elizabeth Berg. Love at unexpected times and places inspires this collection of stories.

REGANBOOKS
The Family (Oct., $27) by Mario Puzo. This novel completed by Carol Gino revisits the powerful 15th-century Borgias, including Rodrigo Borgia and Pope Alexander VI. 250,000 first printing. Ad/promo.
Lost (Oct., $26) by Gregory Maguire. A children's book author is haunted by a ghost who might be Jack the Ripper. 75,000 first printing.
The Water and the Blood (Oct., $26) by Nancy E. Turner turns on issues of race, faith and furtive knowledge in East Texas during the years of WW II. 40,000 first printing.

RUMINATOR BOOKS
The Last Summer of Reason (Oct., $19) by Tahar Djaout. A bookseller lives in a country overtaken by a fundamentalist regime.

ST. MARTIN'S PRESS
America (Sept., $25.95) by Stephen Coonts. An experimental submarine is hijacked in broad daylight. Ad/promo. Author tour.
Close to You (Sept., $24.95) by Mary Jane Clark is a new novel of suspense. Ad/promo. Author tour.
The Sigma Protocol (Oct., $27.95) by Robert Ludlam is his latest thriller. 1 million first printing. Ad/promo.

ST. MARTIN'S/THOMAS DUNNE
The Veteran (Sept., $24.95) by Frederick Forsyth contains five white-knuckle stories. 75,000 first printing. Advertising.

SCRIBNER
Deadhouse (Sept., $25) by Linda Fairstein is a new Alex Cooper thriller in which murder casts a pall on Manhattan.
Fleeced (Oct., $25) by Carol Higgins Clark. Regan Reilly is called upon to solve a diamond heist.

SHADOW MOUNTAIN

Rebekah: Women of Genesis (Nov., $22.95) by Orson Scott Card recreates the life of the woman who leaves home to marry Isaac, son of Abraham and Sarah.

SHAYE AREHEART BOOKS
Cold (Sept., $22) by John Smolens. When his prison work detail gets caught in a snowstorm, a man finds himself at the farmhouse of a woman who has lost her family in a tragic accident. Advertising. Author publicity.
Wetware (Dec., $22) by Craig Nova takes us into a society in which fully formed humans can be created in laboratories. Author publicity.

SIMON & SCHUSTER
Money, Money, Money (Sept., $25) by Ed McBain is the 51st novel in the 87th Precinct series. 100,000 first printing. Ad/promo. 8-city author tour.
City of Dreams: A Novel of Early Manhattan (Oct., $27.50) by Beverly Swerling is an epic of two families, one Dutch, the other English. 75,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
Pale Horse Coming (Oct., $25) by Stephen Hunter. A man disappears while investigating a prison for violent black convicts in Mississippi. 125,000 first printing. Ad/promo. 10-city author tour.
Hotel of the Saints (Nov., $23) by Ursula Hegi is her first story collection in over a decade. 60,000 first printing. Advertising. 5-city author tour.
The Jazz Bird (Jan., $25) by Craig Holden. The real-life murder trial of a wealthy bootlegger in the Roaring Twenties inspires this novel. 75,000 first printing. Ad/promo. 8-city author tour.

SOHO PRESS
He Kills Coppers (Jan., $25) by Jake Arnott. A cop goes bad and a killer goes straight, perhaps. 35,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo.

SOURCEBOOKS LANDMARK
First Lady (Sept., $24) by Michael Malone. Justin Savile and Cuddy Mangum track a serial killer threatening a North Carolina town. 75,000 first printing.
In the Castle of the Flynns (Feb., $22) by Michael Raleigh. When Daniel's parents are killed in a car accident, he is taken in by an Irish family in 1950s Chicago. 35,000 first printing.

TALK MIRAMAX
The Snow Garden (Feb., $23.95) by Christopher Rice. Murder and sexual menace stalk a snowbound university campus.

THUNDER'S MOUTH PRESS
The Poet in Exile: A Journey into the Mystic (Oct., $22.95) by Ray Manzarek. The Doors's keyboard player imagines Jim Morrison simply disappearing to the South Pacific.

TYNDALE HOUSE
Desecration (Oct., $24.99) by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye is the ninth installment of the Left Behind series. 3 million first printing. Ad/promo.

UNIV. OF ALABAMA PRESS
It Wasn't All Dancing and Other Short Stories (Jan., $24.95) by Mary Ward Brown contains stories set in the South, where the characters confront turning points in their lives.

UNIV. OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS
The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress (Nov., $24.95) by Michelle Richmond. This story collection explores the lives of a fragmented family from Alabama.

VIKING
Lake Wobegon Summer, 1956 (Sept., $24.95) by Garrison Keillor depicts that harrowing time of life--adolescence. Ad/promo. 25-city author tour.
The Mitford Snowmen: A Christmas Story (Oct., $10.95) by Jan Karon features a snowman-building contest, doughnuts, hot chocolate and good cheer.
Roscoe (Jan., $24.95) by William Kennedy recounts the story of V-J Day through multiple perspectives, with Legs Diamond and Billy Phelan making guest appearances.

VILLARD
The Holy Road (Sept., $24.95) by Michael Blake continues the saga begun in Dances with Wolves.Ad/promo. Author publicity.
Hand-Me-Down Heartache (Oct., $22.95) by Tajuana "TJ" Butler. A recent college grad faces the sometimes rocky terrain of family, career and love. 11-city author tour.

WARNER
A Bend in the Road (Sept., $23.95) by Nicholas Sparks. After his wife is killed in an accident, a North Carolina deputy sheriff begins rebuilding his life with a newfound love until a secret threatens their relationship. Ad/promo. 18-city author tour.
Envy (Sept., $25.95) by Sandra Brown is a novel of revenge as a reclusive writer seeks to destroy the friend who betrayed him. Ad/promo.
Hometown Legend (Sept., $24.95) by Jerry B. Jenkins. Years after an Alabama town's football team lost the championship, the former coach returns and triumphs in one final season. Ad/promo. 5-city author tour.
Up Country (Oct., $26.95) by Nelson DeMille is a new suspense yarn with Paul Brenner, the army investigator from The General's Daughter. Ad/promo. 15-city author tour.
Last Man Standing (Nov., $26.95) by David Baldacci. An FBI agent is tormented by the slaughter of his team and the memory of his missing father. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
The Millionaires (Jan., $25.95) by Brad Meltzer. Two brothers working for an exclusive bank happen upon $3 million in an abandoned account that can't be traced, or so they think. Ad/promo. 12-city author tour.

WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS
River Woman (Jan., $24) by Donna Hemans. When a Jamaican mother's son drowns, her neighbors suspect that it was no accident. Ad/promo. 4-city author tour.

WELCOME RAIN
Fred & Edie (Sept., $25) by Jill Dawson is based on the true story of Edith Thompson, an Englishwoman hanged in 1923 for murdering her husband.